Junkman

I'm impatient so went to look,  attendees appear to be cunt free if that stops any AS'ers being put off.

I really did intend to coordinate the Bromyard thingy, honestly.

Now all I can say is I agree that it will be cunt free, because the cunts are obviously over here, qed.

What are you actually thinking you achieve with being such an arsehole?

I thought we are friends.

Where' Junkman gone?

I shit on this forum what with its stupid full of themselves lying stonewalling moderator wankers.

Don't expect me to post anything of substance on this circus of arseholes ever again.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Saturday 27^th April 2019 - 15:00

Re horns.

I think the correct equipment would be a pair of Delco Remy, one in low, one in "highway" tune.

Now, the correct correct ones would be 6V, the 'hi' one the B note, the 'lo' one the F note.

Replicas do exist in 12V.

An American car should never ever have British sounding horns.

Yes.

Also check whether the handbrake mechanism isn't stuck on.

If you can look past that naff styling of the 1986 - 1999 3.8 litre GM H bodies, they are darn good cars. Having said that, if you manage to find the sole surviving A body Olds Cutlass Ciera with the LG3, you'd have the cheapest and most underrated muscle car of all time. Shite by definition, if there ever was one. I wasn't impressed when they foisted one on me as a hire car, but that changed dramatically at the next set of traffic lights. Here I was, having a stick of Dynamite with the fuse lit under my arse that could give even Corvettes a run for their money, and nobody around me knew a thing about it. Marvellous. Apart from that, the Taurus/Sable was bloody brilliant, too, extra ballsey points if you find an SHO. I didn't say pretty, mind. All the while good old Mopar exclusively unloaded pure, unadulterated shit onto an unsuspecting clientele. So those are actually the ones to go for. However, your search will be futile.

Oh. Good.

I have allocated the Junkwoman #37 - I trust that meets with her satisfaction?

Yeah, that's fine.

It just occurred to me that we have a joint account...

I told the Junkwoman about the conspiracy against me and she had a laugh and then said she is buying me a ticket, too.

I just can't lose.

If Hoovie likes it, I like it even less than I did hitherto.

That and Lincolnshire.

Everything I owned at the time.

What else is new?

Yeshhhh to the Eldoradoyo, please.

I could bloody well use one, yes.

For fucks sake, I DID NOT DOUBT THAT AGGRESSIVE DOLT'S WORDS FOR A SECOND!

I JUST WANTED TO HAVE A PAIR OF THOSE!

LightBulbFun, I begin to understand your fascination with the devices failing at the speed of dark.
For decades, it was just a nuisance for me that I had to remove one light here and put another one there, just to make something even the septics grasp legal on another continent.

I'm baffled that I now am surrounded by dolts who can't tell a 7 inch sealed beam from a 7 1/4 one.

Mind you, I'm the one accused to be a smartarse when it comes to cars, not the ones that still have to learn what we already forgot.

Do bears shit in the woods?

I thought they are catholics and the pope does.

Have I ever told you the story of setting off on a rubber cow from Munich?

Together with a bunch of likeminded, we were headed for Douglas, an 1,100 mile journey.

About 20 miles west of Munich, it started to rain. So we stopped underneath a bridge over the Autobahn and pulled out our rain overalls.

That's when I noticed that mine had a defect by means of the zip having come unsewn from the seat.

Turning back to have it mended by the then current female cohabitant was not an option, since we had already travelled 20 miles.

My balls were floating for the next 1,080 miles. Consequently a new term was coined, Grabensack - trench goolies.

I understood it the first time around, thanks.

Was it raining?

Call it corrosion, call it tarnishing, call it losing the initial reflectiive properties, the fact is that they degrade over time (note that others above have made the point that a new sealed beam meaning a new reflector is a good thing).

 

But what do I know; I've only been messing around with them for 25 or so years. Obviously my eyes deceive me, and I bow the the superior knowledge of all things automotive that you obviously posess.

 

I know that you find contradicting everything on here as some form of game but I, like Saabnut, find it pretty tedious.

Okay, let me say it in a way even the intellectually challenged like you should understand:

I would like to buy a pair of tarnished sealed beams from you, please, and I offer you a bit of money for them, obviously not a stupid amount, and I will obviously pay for the postage.

I have not owned a tarnished sealed beam in 45 years and would like to have a pair for my collection.

How anybody could possibly interpret this appeal as contradicting everything or suggesting superior knowledge of all things automotive is beyond me. Seriously. Maybe you should take this up with your therapist. On the NHS, i.e. me.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.

They also made a Mini and a Cowley.

I've got as far as updating the DS to sealed beams, probably be a few more years before it gets halogens. ?The directional inbord driving lamps may be halogen as OE anyway?

Originally the later DSes should have H4 main and H1 auxiliary headlights.

This looks interesting.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Light-Bulb-John-Otten/dp/1907527087

That is indeed the intention, but the fact is that over time they do.  I'm sure I can dig a few out of the shed and post to you if you'd like proof.

 

I find owning a set of corroded sealed beams strangely irresistible.

Beer tokens and postage offered.

 

Quote -

"Ford Mustang right-hand drive come out of the barn fine as you can see there's a few bits missing engine running gear and rear axle".

 

Ahh, so the few bits missing are the engine, running gear and rear axle. Handy that.

Looks like a chain-driven RHD conversion. 1976 Ghia. Don't know if it started out originally as a 302 or a Cologne 2.8 V6 but who's gonna strip the mechanical bits from a V6 Mustang?

Guy has a forklift to help with the loading.

 

If the guy was to break it for spares, trim, glass, interior, lights, wiring looms & fusebox, electric window gubbins, body panels, all sorts of stuff, etc, or sell the slot mags (can only see 3 in the pics though!) Jo might be interested.

Or just buy it, strip it on a weekend day, and weigh in the rest. It's only useful to someone who already has one of these. Lots of hard-to-find fiddly bits there.

 

Can someone let her know about it please.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Ford-Mustang-right-hand-drive/293001294641?hash=item44383cf331:g:eqMAAOSw2NhchVS5&redirect=mobile

Joloke has been informed and asked me to thank you for the heads up.

My 1100s and 1800 still have sealed beams which are more than adequate unless the reflectors corrode (admittedly the 1800 hasn't been on the road for eight years so no headlights would be just fine).

The whole point of SBs is that the reflectors can't corrode.